Restructuring Council

The County has 10 Wards represented by 15 part-time Councillors and a full-time Mayor.  Some Wards have more than one Councillor in order to achieve reasonable representation by population.

Council has established a Composition of Council committee, to include 4 Councillors and 3 members of the public, with the following duties and functions:

• To research and identify optimum sizes, models and structures, using experiences of other communities and MMAH resources.
• To analyze and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each model selected as it relates to representation, efficiency of decision making, cost savings, and work load.
• To identify various methods and approaches to obtain public input in the process.
• To report to Council, through the Corporate Services and Finance Committee with the results of its research and analysis but without recommendation on the understanding that, at that time, Council shall decide if it wishes to commence a full process to consider reducing the size of Council and what model it would prefer.